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How to submit

Please send your submission to us by email as
a Word document, with images and artwork supplied on a CD, or via a
web-hosted service for transferring large files. Please note that
the British Museum email system will not generally accept files
over 5MB. Tables should be sent as Excel files, not embedded in the
Word file.

CDs can be posted to BMSAES,
Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, The British Museum, Great
Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG.

Please include full contact details so that we
can contact you with queries about your article. Please also supply
an email address which will be published with the article, so that
readers can contact the author(s).

It is your responsibility to check whether
your files are intact and not corrupted or infected with
viruses.

The reviewing process

Your paper will be peer-reviewed. There are
three possible verdicts:

Accepted, perhaps with minor changes to
English;

Accepted with minor changes such as the
addition of certain references;

Rejected, where more substantive changes are
needed. We may suggest you resubmit.

If your paper is accepted, you will have to
make the changes outlined in the verdict, and we will inform you of
the likely publication date.

Format of documents

Although it will be published online, please
do not send your document as a PDF or in html-form and please keep
formatting to a minimum. If any content needs to be arranged in a
specific format, such as a complex table or chart, please send a
pdf of how the chart should look, so that we can ensure material is
not lost during migration between formats.

Please note the following guidelines:

Diacritics

The editors will use the transliteration font
of the Centre for Computer-aided Egyptological Research. This can
be downloaded and used free of charge at www.ccer.nl/article49.html.

Both fonts should be used by authors to ensure
that the correct characters are included in the edited
article.

Hieroglyphs

All hieroglyphs should be supplied as images
(.jpg. or .tiff), including signs, words or phrases to be inserted
in the main text.

Format of references

The citation system was modified
following the publication of Issue 11, so please
do not consult earlier issues as a guide.

The referencing system follows the
author-date style of The Chicago
manual of style, with a full bibliography at the
end of the article. Footnotes are allowed where further information
needs to be developed outside of the main body of the text. Lengthy
discursive footnotes should be avoided and the data either
incorporated in the body of the article or within an appendix. You
must compile the bibliography yourself. If it does not follow the
guidelines below, the editors will ask you to reformat it.

For English citations and headings,
use sentence-style (not headline-style) capitalisation. Titles of
works in Romance languages should have only the initial word of
title and subtitle and proper nouns capitalised and titles of works
in German should have only nouns and words used as nouns
capitalized. For ancient or other modern languages, or
if in doubt, consult The Chicago manual of
style.

References to artwork and photographs: All artwork and
photographs will be placed at the end of your paper; both are to be
referenced in the text as 'Fig. 1,' etc. Please do not use further
subdivisions, such as Fig.1a, Fig.1b, etc.

Use of images

You may submit line, greyscale or colour
images to accompany your article in digital format. Please avoid
sending any original drawings except where absolutely
necessary.

Where possible, images should be supplied as
TIFF files with a minimum resolution of 300dpi at the final
publication size. If compression is necessary, please choose the
LZW option. JPEGs can be accepted if of sufficient quality and
resolution.

You may include as many illustrations as you
want, and there is no restriction on colour, but please ensure they
are all highly relevant to your article.

Abstract and key words

Please provide an abstract of up to 150 words
of the article. This will be what readers will first see of the
article. It will also be included in the Annual Egyptological
Bibliography. Please provide a list of keywords for use in future
indexes.

We may modify abstracts and keywords if
necessary. All queries should be addressed to the editors: bmsaes@britishmuseum.org

Corrections

Once a paper has been published and to
maintain academic integrity, no changes can be made to the original
file. We will, however, be happy to publish corrections or
additions.

Looted material

We will not publish an article about material
which may be considered looted.

Copyright

It is your responsibility to ensure that you
have all the necessary permissions to publish material submitted to
BMSAES. In particular, please check that these permissions
include online publication. We are unable to obtain a copyright on
your behalf.

Format of the published paper

Papers will be made available as PDF files, as
this format allows greater control over text formatting, and files
will print as they appear on screen. PDF files can be viewed with
Adobe Reader. You can download the latest free version of Adobe
Reader from http://www.adobe.com/.

You can include hyperlinks within PDF files,
and references to British Museum objects should include links to
the online collection database: www.britishmuseum.org/collection.